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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1893
Page
4
Dr Leffman advises housewives to purify turbid water using alum. Dissolve 130 grains alum in a pint of water to produce a strong clarifying mix, used at one to two grains per gallon. Three teaspoons per two gallons settle sediments after a few hours, then filter for drinking quality. even unfiltered it reduces bacteria though boiling remains advised for contaminated water.
A miscellany of diagrams and asks to publish ideas, with a vendor touting a rubber stamp Declined with Thanks to kill postage costs. Advertisements tout tonics Hustetter's Stomach Bitters and Syrup of Figs while urging caution about the wages of sin and urging readers to seek improving education at North Georgia Agricultural College in Dahlonega. A medical note promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a money-back offer.
The Senate debates rules and quorums after Monday’s journal dispute. Mr. Dolph urges a limit on debate while Mr. Morgan argues to repeal the Sherman act and defend Union loyalties. The House resumes business amid discussion of Geary and pension bills with occasional clashes between DeWitt Warner and Geary.
Fort Monroe reports engagement of Senator Faulkner and Miss Virginia Whiting with wedding planned next year. Brunswick health board notes 42 new cases and two deaths with 18 discharged. St Simon's Island among new cases. Charleston bar reports C Colden partly disabled off Charleston. Owenton fire destroys 25 houses, two blocks, Hospital burns, loss $60 000. Faust overdrawn $16 000 at Lawl isbury bank. arrested as he leaves bank. Augusta exposition chief invites national commission. Stone letters criticize cotton gins in Mississippi. Alabama veterans elect major general Fred S. Ferguson. Birmingham to host spring reunion. Jacksonville bonds pass 497 for city improvements. San Francisco rumors accuse actor M B Curtis bribery. Palmas crew found aboard Marseilles victims. Palms quarantine bars statement from Marseilles crew. Charleston disp ensary raids seize whisky. King street shops sacked and bond set.
A Washington special reports that a West India cyclone and a northwest storm merged Friday morning, halting telegraphic communication. The system swept from Florida across Georgia and the Carolinas into the Virginias, then combined with the western storm over Pennsylvania or Ohio, causing wide spread wire outages.
Treasury plans restrict gold payments at New York sub treasury to rebuild the reserve. Navy awards three light draft gunboats to Newport News Dock for 290000 306000 306000 and 840000 total. Amos Fox named Atlanta postmaster. Senate likely approves. House tariffs progress aims for committee report and passage before holidays. Elections case Whatley vs Cobb adjourned for hearings by 24th. Multiple nominations to the Senate including Crownover Caswell Allen Littlefield Simpson Gardner Crawford Kidridge Winslow. Democratic caucus stalls with no decision. Clerks formerly at Ford theatre express willingness to return after repairs, under pressure from Ainsworth group. Voorhees vows to push tariff repeal. debate split with Hill. potential compromise shifts. Bryan seeks graduated income tax as part of tariff bill with tiered rates and local collection plan.
The wife of late Senator Roscoe Conklin died at her Utica New York home on Wednesday. The report notes family loss and city reactions to the passage of the senator’s widow.
The general committee of thirty from the Chamber of Commerce Merchants and Manufacturers Association and other merchants prepared events for 1000 ex Confederate soldiers passing through Cincinnati toward the world’s fair. Memorial Hall offered by George H. Thomas Post G A R will serve as headquarters for the visitors who are expected to stay about two days.
Reports from eastern Texas say fifteen miles of pine timber toward the Sabine river burn in a seething mass of flames. The dry country risks million dollar losses to the yellow pine region as several milling plants and towns lie in the fire’s path.
A fire destroyed the Canada Bank Note Company building in Montreal with $125,000 loss and $40,000 insured. The Memphis and Charleston railroad stake was settled with concessions. The Battle monument at Trenton New Jersey was unveiled to acclaim. Major General Howard's annual report urged continued coastal defenses at New York Boston New Orleans and attention to other ports. Brunswick yellow fever cases rose with 31 new cases and one death. The Scottish Rite Masons held closing business in St Louis. Louisville Nashville shopmen strike may end but many workers cannot find jobs. Gold discovered in East Tennessee mined by Cincinnati capitalists leasing land near Athens. Marshal McMahon remains lie in state in Paris. interment planned Sunday. Admiral Avellan to attend McMahon's funeral with Russian government request. Chattanooga rail dispute seeks return of line to original company, alleging fraudulent conveyance. Austrian political tension over Prague repression and franchise bill fuels rumors of parliament dissolution. North Carolina ex Confederates meet at Raleigh to organize. officers re-elected and eligibility extended to veterans’ families.
Mayor Boody asked county authorities to stop the Mitchell Corbett fight amid public opinion. Governor Flower’s New York interview and Governor Foster’s New Orleans remarks signal suppression of prize fighting. officials expect no events locally but pledge swift action if attempted.
Paris dispatch reports Marshal MacMahon once led French forces in the Franco Prussian War and served as president of the French Republic. He died at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning at Chateau La Foret on the Loire after a period of weakness. his family was present at his death.
A collage of brief notes covers Ib s origin from libra, Dr Samuel Johnson's chair auction in Denbigh for £53 Ts, India's 15000 native plant species, Europe's 10, Nova Constellatio coppers for Gouverneur Morris in Birmingham, and 40 tons of copper. Also Hebrew tower rings, a lineman battling an eagle near Los Angeles, a survey for a railway linking Mexico and Guatemala to British Honduras, Emerson memorizing Lycidas at sea, Venezuelan snake remedies with ocumillo, and cut flowers surviving longer outdoors.
Humor and a child’s plan for a church fair to raise funds. The mother praises the idea yet questions what to sell. The girl suggests asking attendees to bring items to sell themselves and give the money to the organizers, while a tombstone epitaph about illusory wealth is recalled.
The Fourth National Bank Nashville employs seven Jennings Business College graduates. They work from teller desks to collections and some earn as much as 1500 dollars. Other banks and firms in Nashville and the South hire graduates of this noted school.
Estimates vary on ancient Egyptian embalming. One count from 2000 BC to AD 700 yields 420 million bodies. another suggests 741 million mummies, tied to different start dates. The trade remains highly profitable for modern Egyptian dealers.
Fond mother recalls her child joining the Little Defenders today to be kind to animals. The Little Angel reports meeting a man with a bag of kittens who planned to drown them, and vowed to bring the kittens to the group.
A humorous caption feature shows a mother questioning a child about dirty coat sleeves. The boy explains he walked on his hands to avoid wet feet, a light anecdote of cautious behavior.
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